SCSO: Drunk woman left child in park

Tina Davenport arrested

Tina Davenport: Accused of public drunkeness and leaving a child alone at a park

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Tina Davenport: Accused of public drunkeness and leaving a child alone at a park

A woman who was drunk left her 6-year-old child in a park while she left with a man and drank more is facing charges, Spartanburg County deputies said.

A woman called deputies to the Chapel Street Park on Fremont Avenue and Chapel Street at about 8 p.m. Sunday by a woman who said that another woman, later identified as 40-year-old Tina Davenport had left her child in the park when she went off with an unknown man.

The woman said Davenport was “grossly intoxicated” when she left her 6-year-old to play at the park and that she had been gone at least 25 minutes when she called 911. The woman said right before she called 911, she spoke to a man who told her that he had left Davenport “back at the apartments and had paid her.”

Deputies said when they arrived, they found Davenport on a park bench. They said when she was asked why she left her child in the park, Davenport started yelling with slurred speech and smelled strongly of alcohol. Deputies arrested her on charges of public drunkenness and child endangerment.

A family member came by as Davenport was being taken into custody, and deputies left the 6-year-old in his custody.

Deputies said when they searched Davenport’s purse, they found an empty vodka bottle.

She was being held in the Spartanburg County Detention Center pending a bond hearing.

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